First-Ever 3D Concert Broadcast Live

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Submitted by Nick Dager on Sat, 10/09/2010 - 11:00.

 

The concert by Die Fantastischen Vier, Germany's leading hip-hop group, was broadcast live in 3D by satellite to 91 cinemas across Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Belgium for the largest live coverage of a 3D concert event ever.

The P+S Technik freestyle stereo 3D rigs used were especially designed to offer a maximum of creative choice for camera movement in 3D production. The rigs had previously been used on Steadicam systems on a couple of live transmissions in collaboration with Sky (Football Champions League, Ice Hockey World Cup, etc.).

In this case the freestyle rig with its integrated motors for stereo base and angulation adjustment has done a great job mounted on a Technocrane 30. It carried Sony HDC-P1s with 10mm Zeiss DigiPrime lenses.

The standard rig carried heavy Sony HDC-1550 broadcast cameras with 14mm Zeiss DigiPrime lenses.

The rigs were operated by a KUK-Film crew, which was supported by Carlos Alvarez from P+S Technik. The Stereoscopic Analyzer Assistance System developed by the Fraunhofer Heinrich Herz Institute also supported the operators and stereographers. This was used to compute stereo parameters and camera settings. 



Andreas Dasser, managing director of P+S Technik says, "As innovation leaders we are very proud of playing an important role in the world's first 3D broadcast of a live concert to 91 cinemas across Europe. Once again P+S Technik advanced 3D stereography for broadcast and cinema together with other pioneers in the field. Thereby, we proved our rigs' excellent performance during live events to broadcast."

The live broadcast took place on September 28 during the two and a half day innovation congress Forward2Business: The Magic of the Third Dimension at the MMZ Mitteldeutschen Multimediazentrum Halle/Saale, Germany.

P+S Technik www.pstechnik.de